More holiday snaps

Hello!

Please don't feel you have to trawl through what feels like hundreds of photo's from our trip  to Barcelona and Tossa de mar. I still have a gazillion others which I will save on another forum. However, if you feel like enjoying some of the colours, patterns and summery architecture of our trip please feel free to scroll down and enjoy!

See you soon

xox

Penny

Yarn bombing in Barcelona

The minute we booked our holiday in January this year, I knew that I simply had to bomb something of the yarn-happy and cheery kind in Barcelona. I felt a strong sense of compulsion to do this in a foreign city, leave a little graffiti of the yarn variety behind to say "Penny was here" without damaging or offending a beautiful place!

 Because we decided to only take hand luggage and to challenge ourselves with travelling lightly, I could only squeeze a couple of leftover balls from previous projects into my bag and one crochet hook which I was prepared to loose if flight security decided it needed to be removed.
I chose this yellow rowan tweedy yarn and some left over greeny coloured Noro sock yarn because I wasn't taking a pattern with me and thought I'd be able to make up a flower and leaves type posy for bombing in a square somewhere.

On coming back from the Picasso museum (which is free from 3pm onwards on the first Sunday of the month and definitely well worth a visit) I said to Andy and Alice that it was time. Time for mama to take her flower and attach it to somewhere perfect to hopefully make people smile. So, I wandered off on my own on last Sunday evening to this square, just off Las Rambalas past a few cafes and a few drunk students to find the perfect spot.

To say my heart was beating faster is no lie, I wandered how the city might receive my little creative gift?

The square was perfect I felt, it had a little playground with laughing children and happy relaxed parents, a few terraced cafes and an ice-cream parlour, some shady trees and benches for resting and chatting (oh and the statue seen in the above photo).

And, so I found a couple of single seated benches facing each other and started bombing by stitching my flower to the fence.

 With sweaty fingers I took a few snaps to record the moment :o)

With a secret kind of triumph I walked away to get myself a cool drink and see if anyone noticed it in the next few minutes of me hovering in the square.

Literally within a couple of minutes and much to my delight I spied these two ladies sitting down chatting to each other and actually pointing at the flower (!!!) and then getting on using their phones. I was a bit naughty to zoom in taking this pic but I was so chuffed that it had been noticed within minutes of being bombed ha ha!

Viva yarn bombing in foreign places.
How about you, have you ever yarn bombed? 
At home or in a foreign place? Do tell.
I have a feeling that this adrenaline rush could possibly become addictive, oh dear.

Thanks for popping in

xox

See you soon

Still spinning

We are back from our very busy, but beautiful, hot and happy holiday in Barcelona and up the coast on the Costa Brava to Tossa de Mar.

 

 

 

There is so much to say and yet I cannot find the words to describe our 8 day trip away. I think I am still spinning from the beauty, the hot sunshine and the joy of opening my mind again to travelling.

We loved; the architecture of Catalonia, the people, the language, the food, the Mediterranean blues and greens of the sea, the rough sand and sea glass, the tapas, the sangria, the hot, balmy evenings, the siestas, the mountains and quiet early mornings. 

Also included in this love was slowing doooooowwwwwwnnnn as a family, catching up with each others dreams and thoughts about what we saw and what we could see in the future, re-uniting as ourselves, finding time to read again and feel the sun on our skins. Eating beautiful food that tastes so full of flavour and promise, playing games and giggling over some of the people watching whilst relaxing in the shade of outdoor cafe's.

I'm coming down from a spinning reel of renewal in energy to get back to reality and continue with work and life again. I'll keep those dreams though, they're good ones. 

How about you?
Have you been enjoying these summer days?
Are you spinning from something?
Any new dreams of late?

It's good to be back on my bloggo

See you soon with more holiday snaps if you can bear me blabbing on about our trip away a wee bit more :o)

See you soon

xox

Penny